[CentOS] RE: trying to upgrade from Centos 4.0 to current --repair RPM database

[Johnny Hughes]

You probably have the kernel exempted in the method you are using to do
the update.

up2date normally exempts the kernel ... click on the 

Menu -> System Settings -> CentOS Network Settings

Click on the "Package Exceptions" tab ... and remove kernel* from the
"Package Names to Skip" section and save.

Then you can run up2date and upgrade your kernel.

On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 15:45 -0400, David Campbell wrote:
> the --initdb and then --rebuilddb solved all of the problem except the
> kernel issue...
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org]On
> Behalf Of Bryan J. Smith
> Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 3:29 PM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] RE: trying to upgrade from Centos 4.0 to current
> --repair RPM database
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 19:15 +0300, Pasi Pirhonen wrote:
> > man page
> > ========
> > 'Use --initdb to create a new database, use --rebuilddb to rebuild the
> > database indices from the installed package headers.'
> > As in --initdb would efectively nuke all your bookkeeping about
> > installed RPMS.
> 
> Last time I checked --initdb just creates an empty database.  --
> rebuilddb creates an empty database and re-populates it.  You can run
> the latter after former.  In fact, I typically had to do that back with
> early RPM 4.0.
> 
> Furthermore, RPM 4 can get RPM database info from outside the database.
> Remember, the db is just an index.  The RPM information is stored
> outside of it too.
> 
> 
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